luka

Well-known member
and life being reducible to Londis, Spar, Costcutter, is going to lead inexorably to suicide. so you have to fool yourself. and you have to do it well.
 

luka

Well-known member
the art of living is bound up in this. developing fictions you can beleive in. and the moment Londis Costcutter Spar overwhelm the defences of those fictions is the moment you kill yourself.
 

luka

Well-known member
my feeling is that you have to start from the position that it is all fake, that your fictions are no less real than Londis, Spar, Costcutter. And this is becasue the stakes are quite high. Becasue despair and suicide are always in your ear.
 

vimothy

yurp
if life really is redicable to Londis, Spar, Costcutter, then coming up with fictional alternatives seems quite hard
 

luka

Well-known member
if life really is redicable to Londis, Spar, Costcutter, then coming up with fictional alternatives seems quite hard

i don't think that it is. i think that reality is figured in this way. and that you have to fight really quite hard to reject that figuration.
 

luka

Well-known member
i think there is a notion of England that reduces it to that. and it's a powerful vision and it's hard to resist. i don't think it's 'real'.
 

vimothy

yurp
bc "Londis, Spar, Costcutter" are kind of inescapable. at some point, everyone has to go and do the shopping
 

version

Well-known member
You can just get your shopping delivered tbf. If you can get it delivered by drone then even better for your fictions.
 

luka

Well-known member
how might i be using those figures? use your imagination. what might they be standing in for?
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Embrace the grim reality of Britain's joyful suffering. Converting others is a fool's errand. Pray to the gods of concrete, bricks, moss and rain.
 

version

Well-known member
Wonder whether it'll make people more or less likely to embrace VR. Will your grey world mean you reject the fantasy or run to it?
 
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